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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.